The benevolent banner., 1887-09-03

carrier corporation In the South
railroad, steamboat, and other,-in
which the common rights of colored
men and women are outraged and
denied by the minions of these cor
porations, acting under implicit Or
ders in most cases, as we'll as by COM
mon passengers who take the matter
in their own hands as often as they
please, and are in no instance pur-
sued and punished by the lawful au-
thorities, who in every instance
sympathlze with them. (6) The gen
eral policy of those who conduct
places Of public accommodation, and
are granted license for this pur-
pose, such as keepers of inns, hotels
and conductors of theatres and kim
dred places of amusement,w where one
mans money, all things being equal, ,
should usually be as good as an,
others. These matters reach down
in the very life of a people; they are
fundamentally the things which in
all times have moved men to associ-
ate themselves together il civil So
ciety for mutual benefit and protec-
ton, to restrain the rapacious and
unscrupulous and to protect the
weak, the timid and the ,and
whenever and wherever a condition
Of affairs obtains where these princi-
pies are disregarded and outraged, ii
becomes the imperative duty of the
aggrieved to take such steps fo1
their preservation as the condition Of
affairs seems to warrant.
SCOPE OF THE ORGANIZATION.
think this League should have
its stronghold in the Southern states
1t is IN those states that the griev-
ances we complain of have most
glaring and oppressive existence; +
is in those States that the bulk of ou1
people reside. The League in the
North and West will serve to create
public opinion in those sections and
to coerce politicians into taking a
broader view of our grievances and
to compel them to pay more respect
to our representations and requests
than they have ever done before
This will follow fast upon organiza-
tion and capable management; be-
cause we have learned by experience
that intelligent sympathy can only
be created by intelligent agitation.
and that the respect of politicians
can only be secured by compulslon,
such alone as thorough organization
can bring to bear. In the North and
West we are not restrained In the
free exercise of the ballot, but aside
from this what benefit accrues to US!
Elections come and pass, parties are
successful or defeated, but the inhu
ence of the race remains simply
worthless, the victor and the van
pushed alike treating US with indif
ference or contempt after the elec
ticn. And if we continue in the fu
ture as in the past disorganized anC
leaderless mass there will be M
change for the better, rather for th'
worse. Every year the Indifference
and contempt are shown in more pro
nounced and different ways. 1t il
only by proper organization and dis
cipline that anything to our advan
tage can be ac complished. In tn
South like results will follow, save
IN larger measures, and perhaps a
greater cost to individual member
of the League, since free speech an
action are things that must b
fought for there. For it cannot b
denied that in the South free speecI
and free action are rot tolerated
The white men of that section, i
defiance OF all constitution and la'
have taken affairs In their own hand
and crush out, or attempt to do II
all oninions not in accord with thOs